Recent Issues. Chapter 8: The School of the Future. Quote 12

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Recent Issues. Chapter 8: The School of the Future. Quote 12

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Post published:February 28, 2019
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“As I have said so many times, (and will now say for the last time), we can teach twice as much as is now taught in the classroom in the same time and with the same effort.” (p. 96)

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 6: Special Conditions Affecting Stimulus Control. Quote 7
Reinforcing sounds in the child’s environment provide for the automatic reinforcement of vocal forms. Such sounds need not be verbal; the child is reinforced automatically when he duplicates the sounds of airplanes, streetcars, automobiles, vacuum cleaners, birds, dogs, cats, and so on. But among the sounds which become important are the verbal responses of his parents and others. (p. 164)
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“As I have said so many times, (and will now say for the last time), we can teach twice as much as is now taught in the classroom in the same time and with the same effort.” (p. 96)

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